Susan Goldwitz

Susan Goldwitz’s poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies, and the manuscript of her book of poems, Dreams of the Hand, won an Academy of American Poets Award. She is especially interested in the creative intersection of visual and written expression and has worked as a fine art curator as well as a teacher of literature.

Inside the Still Life

Even as you sit here
invisible light ripples out from your form,
opening out rivers beyond you, radiant

in waves and pulses
as the Aurora.
Every movement in the clouds,

in the strict sweep of stars
harmonizes with these paths.
But you sit

feeling stuck in your body
as a bird been shot –
unaware, even as you fall

your loosened feathers fly and slice
through thousands of humming atoms,
changing everything.

Susan Goldwitz